"Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith"

“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

“I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.”

Source : "The Other Fed Chief". www.wired.com. June 1, 2006.

“I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”

“There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.”

“Jack Roush is the only guy that could keep Matt Kenseth from winning races.”

“A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.”

“I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.”